Word: journalistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seeing Bernard's, Serusier's or Gauguin's Pont-Aven paintings against the more ordinary folklorique images by now forgotten academicians like Emile Vernier or Alfred Guillou. Never before had French art experienced such a plague of nuns and innocent provincial virgins. The trend was neatly parodied by a journalist, Alphonse Allais, who in 1883 exhibited a perfectly blank sheet of white paper with the title First Communion of Anemic Young Girls in the Snow...
...relieve these national insecurities by guaranteeing their defense, as in the case of South Korea. But the U.S. cannot provide this protection to all. Moreover, attempts to restrict the spread of bomb building know-how have failed: If a junior at Princeton can design a bomb, and a journalist can find the plans to one in a public library, any nation can. As a result, American policy should focus on limiting the spread of the plutonium that is the prerequisite of any nuclear weapon as the only way to curb proliferation...
Despite the hazards of being a Western journalist in Iran, Van Voorst is eager to return "when the dust settles." Meanwhile, TIME will use its many other resources to provide the same degree of thorough coverage of events in Iran as is offered in this issue...
...life on all Iranians. Alcohol was forbidden. Women were segregated from men in schools below the university level, at swimming pools, beaches and other public facilities. Khomeini even banned most music from radio and TV. Marches were acceptable, he told Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, but other Western music "dulls the mind, because it involves pleasure and ecstasy, similar to drugs." Fallaci: "Even the music of Bach, Beethoven, Verdi?" Khomeini: "I do not know those names...
...denounced the separatist leaders as corrupt men deserving of punishment. Later he sanctioned negotiations to allow for some form of Kurdish autonomy. After mass protests he modified his rule that women must wear the chador to one requiring merely "modest dress"?even though he fumed to Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci about "the coquettes who put on makeup and go into the street showing off their necks, their hair, their shapes...